re: Monty Williams appreciation thread

QM, your point is based around the fact that Monty is a world class motivator against good teams. Which may be true. However, giving players the blame for playing down or up to opponents is equally plausible. I don't judge him on the quality of losses or wins, so I'm not speaking for the board. I'm speaking solely for myself. The Monty subplot is something I pay close attention to and despite my perceived "melts" on here about him, I feel fairly objective. I'll expound on last night:

- BAD: the TO called when the crowd was roaring and we were up 9-6 early in the first was dumb as nails. I popped into the game thread during that TO and commented on it I thought it was so dumb. Lo and behold, the Clips come out of the TO and go on a 7-0 run.

- GOOD: the shorter timeouts for the rest of the game when the Clips would make a run.

- GOOD: resting Asik when Jordan would sit. Keeping Ajinca on a short leash when Jordan returned.

- GOOD: Staggering Gordon/Evans in the 2nd half.

- BAD: hero ball and clock draining offense late again.

- GOOD: Evans the distributor, including a back door cut by Cunningham for a dunk with the game on the line.

- MORE GOOD/SOME BAD: the perimeter defense. Gordon and Evans are so strong they allow a ton of flexibility with who they guard. We took advantage of that last night. The bad part was how often our bigs ended up guarding guards on the perimeter.